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Greenford London Underground National Rail
LocationGreenford
Local authorityLondon Borough of Ealing
Managed byLondon Underground
Station code(s)GFD
Number of platforms3 (2 LU, 1 bay); 1 bay platform face disused
Fare zone4
London Underground annual entry and exit
2008Increase 3.530 million[1]
2009Decrease 3.495 million[1]
2018Decrease 4.25 million[2]
2019Decrease 4.17 million[3]
2020Decrease 2.96 million[4]
2021Decrease 2.05 million[5]
2022Increase 3.29 million[6]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2008–09Decrease 74,196[7]
2009–10Increase 0.105 million[7]
2010–11Increase 0.153 million[7]
2011–12Increase 0.174 million[7]
2012–13Increase 0.191 million[7]
Key dates
1904Opened
Other information
External links
London transport portal

Greenford station is a London Underground and National Rail station in Greenford, Greater London, and is owned and managed by LUL. It is the terminus of the National Rail Greenford Branch Line, and is in Travelcard Zone 4.

History

A 1914 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Greenford

The original Greenford station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 1 October 1904 on the joint New North Main Line.[8]

The present station, adjacent to the original, was built in the Central line extension of the 1935-40 New Works Programme of the London Passenger Transport Board. It opened on 30 June 1947 after delay due to the Second World War.[8] Service at the original ("main-line") station was gradually reduced and it was closed in 1963.

The old station for the New North Main Line can still be seen out of the window of a central line train.

The station today

Greenford station is above ground level with an island platform for the Central line, where it is between Perivale and Northolt stations. A bay platform facing south-east between the Underground platforms serves the Greenford branch service operated by First Great Western, the next station on the branch is South Greenford and the line joins the Great Western Main Line at West Ealing.

Platform 1 is for London Underground trains away from London, usually to West Ruislip, and platform 3 for trains towards central London and beyond as far as Epping, where Platform 2 serves the Paddington branch line.

Greenford was the first London Underground station to have an escalator up to platforms above street level.[9] Until 2014 it remained the final London Underground station with a wooden-treaded escalator in service; all other such escalators were previously converted to fully metal treads, or removed altogether from sub-surface Underground stations in the wake of the fatal 1987 King's Cross fire.

Greenford branch trains (National Rail) run to Paddington but there is no Sunday service.

Greenford station (westbound platform)

The line between Greenford and West Ealing carries infrequent freight services from Paddington New Yard and sand traffic for Park Royal and is used by occasional diverted passenger services. One of the few remaining semaphore signalling installations in London is on the adjacent New North Main Line which Greenford East signal box controls along with the Greenford branch as far as South Greenford. Great Western type lower quadrant signals are still in use.

British Rail plans from the early 1990s to do away with Greenford East signal box and its semaphore signals, with upgraded signalling controlled by Slough and Marylebone signalling centres, were postponed indefinitely as the decline of rail traffic controlled by Greenford East did not justify the cost.

In 2009, because of financial constraints, TfL decided to stop work on a project to provide step-free access at Greenford and five other stations, on the grounds that these are relatively quiet stations and some are already one or two stops away from an existing step-free station.[10] However there is no station with step-free access which is close to Greenford. £3.9 million was spent on Greenford before the project was halted.[11] However, it appears that the step-free access project has restarted and is now scheduled to be completed by 2015.

Preceding station   London Underground   Following station
Template:LUL lines
National Rail National Rail
Terminus   First Great Western
Greenford Branch Line
Mondays to Saturdays only 		  South Greenford
Disused railways
Northolt   Great Western Railway
New North Main Line 		  Perivale Halt

Greenford station is on London bus routes 92, 105, 395 and E6.

References

  1. ^ a b {"Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures (2007–2017)". London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Archived from the original (XLSX) on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018. Cite error: The named reference "infobox_stats_ref_tube_2007" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  6. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  8. ^ a b "Central Line, Dates". Clive's Underground Line Guides. Retrieved 11 October 2009.
  9. ^ Bruce, J. Graeme; Croome, Desmond F. (1996). "The New Works Programme Resumed". The Twopenny Tube: The Story of the Central Line. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. p. 52. ISBN 1-85414-186-4.
  10. ^ "Disability and Deaf Equality Scheme (DES) 2009-2012". TfL. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  11. ^ "TfL wastes £64million abandoning disabled access plans on the Tube". Evening Standard. 21 April 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
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